New study on milk and colitis!

The role of milk sialyllactose in intestinal bacterial colonization.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22585928

Discuss! I know that diary doesn't bother me too much but in the long run, staying off of it I feel much better :)

Yup, not to mention the lactose that will be a nice fermenting agent for bad bacteria.

Technical yes. I would rather have had a few sentences about this in a review article - but I understand biochemists need to publish.

I think the real progress is that the findings point to a particular bacteria family whose colonization is important for UC resistance. Possibly findings like this will lead to more UC-focused probiotics - or to drugs that can manipulate gut flora using the same mechanisms.

no milk for me for decades now but I've found the harder cheeses to be OK. I've read the harder the cheese, the less lactose.
No brie or cream cheese, the soft cheeses mess me up immediately and I still miss ice cream :(

Switching to lactose-free non-fat or low-fat milk solved my major problem with dairy. I do fine with low-salt cottage cheese, non-fat or low-fat natural yogurt, and the Swiss cheeses emmentaler, gruyere, & appenzeller-- which are relatively low-salt, low-fat. Cream cheese I generally avoid-- too rich. I love brie, but it's very rich so I try not to indulge except at the winter holidays when it's readily paired with good bread & wine or champagne. RE ice cream: I'm better off if I don't buy any! It's very fattening, though sooooooooooo satisfying during hot weather. (Especially H/D rocky road or B & J cherry garcia: yum!) Dairy is a good source of calcium for people w/o casein issues; lactose intolerance is easier to work around. / Old Hat (31 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

Post Edited (Old Hat) : 5/20/2012 2:24:50 PM (GMT-6)

I've never been much of a milk drinker.

Lol, Mackster. Soy lattes are yummy. :)

I have not posted for some time but came across this thread. Since my now 2.5 year old was 3 months I have stopped most dairy. I abbr also been what seems like remission of my UC. In the past everyone said milk did not play a role but now I really wonder. I think I may have had problems since I was like 3 years old. The break from blood, mucous and most pain is very very nice.

The damage to your colon can cause lactose intolerance.

I will read both the articles and comment later but to those who are preferring Soy over milk. Its no good either, as a matter of fact, worse than milk (again, not read the articles yet)

If you get a chance, read 'The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food' http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Soy-Story-Americas-Favorite/dp/0967089751 She gives a ton of scientific evidence. When I became completely vegetarian, I was pretty high on tofu, then a colleague of mine that works with mice, pointed that soy is never fed to the mice but a standardized chow. She also pointed to phytoestrogens and suggested me to do some reading. I read a ton of papers that were giving me very good impression to stay away but this book is an excellent job of putting all scientific data together in popular science format.
Never touch Soy since then.

Not on anything now except mirolax.

can't think of any baaaaaaaaaaaaad symptoms

I used to drink approx 1 litre+ of milk for 1.5years before dx'd. Stoped drinking and no more problems.